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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See racket.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See racket.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis, or a shuttlecock in badminton.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games

Etymologies

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French requette, from Arabic راحة (rāħat, "palm of the hand").

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